Columbus: who represents it, and who is running
U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Senator (Ossoff seat); U.S. Representatives for GA-2 and GA-3; Governor (open), Lieutenant Governor and the other statewide constitutional officers, Public Service Commission; Georgia Senate and House seats (Government Center: SD-15, HD-140; Muscogee also votes SD-29 and HD-137, 138, 139, 141); constitutional amendments. No Columbus Mayor or Council contests: all 2026 municipal contests were decided at the May 19 nonpartisan election and the June 16 runoff..
Holding office18
the sitting council
On the ballot12
4 sitting members running again
The official candidate list ↗ · What Columbus is like — the /local page
Congressional district (city hall): Georgia's 2nd congressional district (seat of government: Government Center, coordinates 32.46470, -84.99168); Columbus-Muscogee spans GA-2 and GA-3 — Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (Democratic)
1
Mayor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B.H. "Skip" Henderson III Elected | Mayor | Independent | Columbus Consolidated Government |
2
Councilor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce Huff ✉️ Elected | Councilor | Independent | District 3 | Columbus Consolidated Government |
| Cathy Cook ✉️ Elected | Councilor | Independent | District 9 At-Large | Columbus Consolidated Government |
| Charmaine Crabb ✉️ Elected | Councilor | Independent | District 5 | Columbus Consolidated Government |
| Gary Allen ✉️ Elected | Councilor | Independent | District 6 | Columbus Consolidated Government |
| Glenn Davis ✉️ Elected | Councilor | Independent | District 2 | Columbus Consolidated Government |
| JoAnne Cogle ✉️ Elected | Councilor | Independent | District 7 | Columbus Consolidated Government |
| Simi Barnes ✉️ Elected | Councilor | Independent | District 1 | Columbus Consolidated Government |
| Toyia Tucker ✉️ Elected | Councilor | Independent | District 4 | Columbus Consolidated Government |
| Travis L. Chambers ✉️ Elected | Councilor | Independent | District 10 At-Large | Columbus Consolidated Government |
| Walker Garrett ✉️ Elected | Councilor | Independent | District 8 | Columbus Consolidated Government |
3
Governor
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Kemp Elected | Governor | Republican | Muscogee County Elections & Registration | |
| Keisha Lance Bottoms | Governor Running | Democratic | Fulton County Registration & Elections | |
| Rick Jackson | Governor Running | Republican | Fulton County Registration & Elections |
4
State Representative — HD-140
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Kvietkus | State Representative Running | Republican | Georgia SOS | |
| Marquese "Skinny" Averett | State Representative Running | Democratic | Georgia SOS |
5
State Senator — SD-15
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ed Harbison Elected | State Senator | Democratic | Muscogee County Elections & Registration | |
| Tremaine "Teddy" Reese Elected | State Representative → Running for State Senator | Democratic | Muscogee County Elections & Registration | |
| Chuck Hand | State Senator Running | Republican | Georgia SOS |
6
U.S. Senator
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raphael G. Warnock Elected | U.S. Senator | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json, CC0) | |
| Jon Ossoff Elected | U.S. Senator → Running | Democratic | @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json, CC0) | |
| Mike Collins | U.S. Senator Running | Republican | Fulton County Registration & Elections |
7
U.S. Representative — GA-2
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Democratic | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Matt Day | U.S. Representative Running | Republican | Georgia SOS |
8
U.S. Representative — GA-3
| Name | Office | Party / slate | Seat | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Jack Elected | U.S. Representative → Running | Republican | U.S. House of Representatives | |
| Maura Keller | U.S. Representative Running | Democratic | Georgia SOS |
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Notes on this record
How the lists were read, and what could not be.
- Municipal: Mayor and the ten Councilors (Districts 1-8 plus District 9 and District 10 at-large) are Columbus Consolidated Government offices (city and Muscogee County merged in 1971) and are nonpartisan, so party null, partyShort 'None'. Sitting members from columbusga.gov/council and each district page, retrieved 2026-10-22; official columbusga.org emails only — the district pages print phones and, for some members, a street address, neither copied. The Elections office's Incumbents page (columbusga.gov/elections/Elected-Officials-Candidate/Incumbents) is stale for D1 (Bryon Hickey) and D9 (John Anker); the council page wins.
- 2026 municipal elections (already decided): candidates from Muscogee Elections' '2026 Qualified Candidates' PDF (Last-Modified 2026-03-16) and results from the Georgia SOS official results API (May 19 General Primary/Nonpartisan, as of 2026-06-05; June 16 runoff, as of 2026-08-20). Mayor-elect Isaiah Hugley, Sr. (runoff 16,313 to 15,317 over JoAnne Cogle). Council winners for the new terms: D1 Simi Barnes, D3 Sherrie Aaron, D5 Charmaine Crabb (re-elected), D7 Rebecca 'Becca' Zajac (runoff), D9 At-Large Cathy Cook (runoff). Barnes and Cook also won the special elections for the rest of the current D1/D9 terms and are already seated. Following the Chandler/Long Beach convention, members-elect are in notes only, not rows; the outgoing Mayor Henderson, Bruce Huff (D3) and JoAnne Cogle (D7) remain rows until the new terms begin (January 2027 expected; exact start date not read from the charter).
- Next Columbus municipal election: Districts 2, 4, 6, 8 and District 10 At-Large (terms ending 2028 per the Incumbents page) at the May 2028 Georgia general primary/nonpartisan election; the 2028 date is not yet published.
- Candidates for November 3, 2026: the Georgia SOS qualified-candidate pages (sos.ga.gov, including robots.txt) return a Cloudflare managed challenge (HTTP 403) and were not bypassed, and the Muscogee County Board of Elections & Registration has posted no November sample ballot (only notices, early-voting sites and the constitutional-amendment booklet). Statewide contests (U.S. Senate, Governor) are taken from Fulton County's official consolidated sample ballot (identical statewide; it prints no Libertarian or independent for these). GA-2, GA-3, SD-15 and HD-140 nominees come from the SOS official primary and runoff results and carry candidateUnofficial: true — an independent or third-party general candidate in those contests cannot be ruled out.
- Contests for Columbus's offices: U.S. Senate Ossoff (D, inc.) vs Mike Collins (R); Governor open (Kemp term-limited): Rick Jackson (R) vs Keisha Lance Bottoms (D); GA-2 Sanford Bishop (D, inc.) vs Matt Day (R); GA-3 Brian Jack (R, inc.) vs Maura Keller (D); SD-15 open (Ed Harbison lost the primary): Tremaine 'Teddy' Reese (D, the sitting HD-140 member) vs Chuck Hand (R); HD-140 open: Marquese 'Skinny' Averett (D) vs Edward Kvietkus (R). None unopposed. Write-ins and primary losers excluded.
- Districts covering Columbus-Muscogee (from the contests on Muscogee's 2026 primary ballot): congressional GA-2 (20 of 25 reporting units) and GA-3 (8); State Senate 15 and 29; State House 137, 138, 139, 140, 141. Both U.S. House members are recorded; for the legislature only the Government Center's districts (SD-15, HD-140) are recorded, per the brief. Seat of government taken as the Government Center, where the Mayor and Council sit; the separate historic City Hall building geocodes to the same districts. No special elections in Muscogee since November 2024 apart from the November 2025 PSC contests (SOS results API, 2025-2026 elections checked).
- Sources and terms: columbusga.gov (robots.txt disallows only admin/system paths such as /*/ctl/, /admin/, /Install/ — none used; Terms of Use read first: 'Copyright 2026 by Columbus Consolidated Government and/or its suppliers. All rights reserved', no reuse licence; photos linked, never copied), resources.columbusga.gov (Azure blob; no robots.txt), results.sos.ga.gov (robots.txt 404; public results API, read-only), house.gov (robots allows /representatives), unitedstates.github.io (CC0), fultoncountyga.gov (robots disallows only /springboard-page*), geocoding.geo.census.gov (robots 404). Blocked, not bypassed: sos.ga.gov (Cloudflare challenge). legis.ga.gov token API and senate.gov not used. Federal and state rows have no photos.
- No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded (the Incumbents page and some council pages print P.O. boxes, street addresses and phones; none copied). standsFor null for everyone (no candidate statements read). Constitutional/county offices that the consolidated government's voters also elect (Sheriff, Tax Commissioner, Coroner, clerks, judges, District Attorney, Board of Education) are not recorded; municipal = Mayor and Council per the brief.
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Sources
Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.
- Columbus Consolidated Government — Columbus City Council member page (listed on columbusga.gov/council) 10
- Fulton County Registration & Elections — Consolidated Sample Ballot, November 3, 2026 General & Special Election (statewide contests are identical in Muscogee) 3
- Columbus Consolidated Government — Office of the Mayor 1
- Muscogee County Elections & Registration — Elected Officials (Incumbents) page ("Governor | Brian Kemp | R | 4 yrs / 2026") 1
- Muscogee County Elections & Registration — Elected Officials (Incumbents) page ("Senate, 15th District | Ed Harbison | D | 2 yrs / 2026"); also Georgia SOS official Nov 5, 2024 results ("Ed Harbison (I) (Dem)", sole candidate) 1
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json, CC0) 1
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (Georgia 3rd, "Jack, Brian", R); candidacy: Georgia SOS official May 19, 2026 primary results (Muscogee), sole Republican candidate "Brian Jack (I)" 1
- @unitedstates congress-legislators (legislators-current.json, CC0) — senate.gov not used (Akamai 403 in prior runs); also on Muscogee Elections' Incumbents page (term ends 2026) 1
- U.S. House of Representatives — Directory of Representatives (Georgia 2nd, "Bishop, Sanford", D); candidacy: Georgia SOS official May 19, 2026 primary results (Muscogee), sole Democratic candidate "Sanford Bishop (I)" 1
- Muscogee County Elections & Registration — Elected Officials (Incumbents) page ("Representative, District 140 | Termaine \"Teddy\" Reese | D" — sic); SOS official 2024 results print "Tremaine Teddy Reese (I) (Dem)" 1
- Georgia SOS — official results, May 19, 2026 General Primary (Muscogee County; isOfficialResults true) — sole Republican candidate, State Senate District 15 1
- Georgia SOS — official results, May 19, 2026 General Primary (Muscogee County; isOfficialResults true) — sole Republican candidate, State House District 140 1
- Georgia SOS — official results, May 19, 2026 General Primary (Muscogee County; isOfficialResults true) — sole Democratic candidate, State House District 140 1
- Georgia SOS — official results, May 19, 2026 General Primary (Muscogee County; isOfficialResults true) — sole Republican candidate, U.S. House District 2 1
- Georgia SOS — official results, May 19, 2026 General Primary (Muscogee County; isOfficialResults true) — U.S. House District 3 Democratic primary 1